Tag Archives: games

Music Flash Class ($3.99) — for iPhone/iPad. Music Flash Class is an app developed by a piano teacher Henry Flurry. It has been around for a couple of years now, but an update for iOS 8 was recently released. The new layout looks good! Music Flash Class is an interactive note identification app. The settings […]

The day after Halloween, I held a Piano Party (monthly group class) with my students. I took advantage of the holiday to have a Fall/Halloween theme and invited students to wear their Halloween costumes if desired. We began, as always, by watching a video on YouTube. This time, I picked Jarrod Radnich’s transcription of the Harry Potter […]

I know it’s been quiet around the blog lately! Last summer was one of those summers where I said “yes” to too many commitments and over-extended myself. I’m actually quite relieved to be in a “normal” Fall teaching schedule. Recently, I’ve been wrapping up a few projects which I hope will allow me to blog […]

One of the questions that arose during the presentation about music games (see the handout here) that I gave last week for the Summit County OMTA chapter and at the 2014 MusicEdConnect.com conference was… How do you organize your games? You may remember some months back when I blogged about finding this little filing cabinet […]

I recently gave presentations about music games to the Summit County OhioMTA and the MusicEdConnect.com conference. I thought perhaps some of you might be interested in seeing the handout, which I have posted here on my personal website, joymorin.com. The links in the handout all lead directly to the games and printables being discussed. Enjoy! […]

Susan Paradis recently created a brand new group on Facebook called, “Piano Teacher FunMakers.” It is a discussion group for piano teachers who like to get students off the bench and teach music with hands-on activities. The goal of the group is to share games that work, places to get games and activities, ways to store […]

Hello, readers! I just wanted to help spread the word about a new online conference for music educators scheduled for February 5-8, 2014. MusicEdConnect.com has recently announced the lineup of speakers for the sessions and it looks great! Conference registrants can watch the sessions live online or they can check out the videos later, on-demand. […]

At last Saturday’s Piano Party, I wanted to play the Spell-A-Keyboard game with my students as a team game, but indoors. Since I couldn’t draw keyboards with chalk as I did when we played the game outdoors, I realized that I needed to come up with some other way to provide a floor keyboard for […]

Last week was a busy week and I didn’t manage to get a single blog post posted! Hope you missed me — I’m back! ;) On Saturday, I held a kick-off Pizza Piano Party with my students who are under age 14. My goal with this get-together was for students to get to know each […]

I wanted to create a note-naming game for my waiting room area, and this is what I came up with: the Keyboard Rollin’ Game. There are two gameboards to choose from, depending on if you would like to practice treble clef notes or bass clef notes.

A couple of weeks ago, I came across a wonderful little online shop called The Practice Shoppe. Leslie, the owner, is a Suzuki violin teacher/mom. She sells a variety of fun things in her shop to help make lessons and practice fun for students. I ordered a few of her wonderful music dice, which are […]

Last week, we had a Forum Q&A discussion about health insurance for self-employed individuals (such as piano teachers). It has been great to hear all of your feedback about this important issue, and I have found it helpful with my research! I have a new question for you today. Your responses will be helpful when […]